Google crowns national winner and three grade group winners of Doodle 4 Google Canada

Google Canada revealed the national winner and three grade group winners of this year’s  Doodle 4 Google contest. More than 12,000 students from across the country submitted doodles around the theme “What I see for Canada’s future is…”. Young artists imagined a country where robots could cure disease, others dreamed of living on Mars, while some saw a world united by nature.

Following a very close public vote, where Canadians voted more than 465,000 times, we revealed our four incredibly talented grade group winners at the Art Gallery of Ontario. Of those four masterpieces, 11th-grader Jana Sofia Panem’s Doodle, "A Bright Future" was selected as the national winner!

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Google Play Store now has Android Excellence collections

After Apple revamps the App Store, Google is kind of following in their footsteps with its new Android Excellence collections. This new program is going to highlight collections of apps that deliver “incredible user experiences on Android,” take advantage of Google’s best practices, or have “great design, technical performance, localization, or device optimization.” Google launched the collection today and split it into two groups: apps and games. You’ll be able to see these collections in the Editors’ Choice section, where the other featured apps and games are curated by Google’s editorial team.

The section seems to benefit developers more than users, though, as the apps will only be refreshed quarterly. So, if you go through all the apps and the quarter isn’t done yet, you’d have to wait. Developers are given extra exposure, though, for that length of time.

Source: Tech Crunch

Audi shows off self-parking capabilities of the A8

Audi is unveiling its next-generation A8 on July 11^th and before that the German car maker is showing one of the new features of the vehicle: its self-parking capabilities. The video shows how easy it is to park the new vehicle. It just needs you to press the key fob once and the car will park itself. As CNET points out, there seems to be less human interaction with this A8 compared to Tesla’s Summon feature and BMW’s remote-parking system. The car is capable of SAE Level 3 autonomy. The A8 itself and all the other features will be revealed fully on the 11^th and before that on July 7^th in a bit of a product placement in the upcoming Spider-Man: Homecoming premiere.

Apple Music releases curated 'Canada's top 150 songs of all-time' playlist

Apple Music Canada’s editors are helping our country celebrate Canadian music talent by releasing the top 150 Canadian songs of all-time. During the next three weeks, Canadians are invited to tune-in to Apple Music and count-down the music of all genres appreciated around the world through four amazing playlists.

To start, listen here to discover songs 101-150, plus 50 songs showcasing the top 50 tracks by Canada's “The Next Generation” of artists: applemusic.com/canada150 

For each playlist, artist Douglas Coupland has created four playlist covers for Apple Music, where elements of “Carr War Canoes” are featured - see sample of the first playlist cover attached. “Harris Holofile Iceburgs” if featured on the cover the Next Generation playlist.